Join your neighbors! Sign the petition!

Ratio Utility Billing System (RUBS) is a way landlords redefine utility measuring to offload more costs onto tenants. It unclear exactly what is being payed for and causes utility billing to sometimes increase up to 8x! ($50 / month -> $300-400 / month).

We want to guarantee no more of our neighbors are kicked out of their home due to a utility bill increase scam

While RUBS is banned in other states, it is clear that these massive utility bill increases fall within a legal loophole of the new Washington rent stabilization laws and are being used to squeeze more money out of tenants with nothing in return.

Cornell & Associate tenants have an opportunity to drive RUBS out of their buildings AND out of Seattle as a whole.

The Los Angeles Tenant Union and the Debt Collective in LA are engaged in a campaign to ban RUBS in LA. They are larger organizations and have offered to provide us support in any way they can. That includes media coverage and on-the-ground organizer advice (such as the meeting we had last weekend with the Virgil Square Tenants who are currently on a rent strike against RUBS). They are on track to ban RUBS in their city and we can get it banned in ours too.

Seattle mayoral candidate Katie Wilson lives in a Cornell & Associate building with RUBS, as do many of her volunteer organizers in her campaign. They have said they are interested in helping out our campaign as well.